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Behn and Rochester Restoration Sex Poems - Coggle Diagram
Behn and Rochester Restoration Sex Poems
Dubious Consent
"On a Juniper Tree..."
"Nor would the shepherd be denied./ Impatient he waits no consent/ But what she gave by languishment" (Behn 49-51).
"Yields to the conqueror all her charms" (Behn 55).
Disability / Health
"The Disabled Debauchee" by Rochester
Syphilis and its debilitating nature
"Or should some cold-complexioned sot forbid, / With his dull morals, our night’s brisk alarms” (Rochester 29-30).
"So when my days of impotence approach, / And I’m by pox" (Rochester 13-14).
Madness
"Bedlam’ has many mansions: have a care. / Your muse diverts you, makes the reader sad; / You fancy, you're inspired, he thinks you mad" (Rochester 17-19).
Behn's "The Disappointment"
Consent
"In a lone thicket made for love, / Silent as yielding maid’s consent, / She with a charming languishment, / Permits his force, yet gently strove" (11-14).
Silent consent. No enthusiastic consent involved.
Gender performance through sex
"While the o’er-ravished shepherd lies /
Unable to perform the sacrifice." (69-70).
Per OED ravish = rape
Sacrifice implies violence. Sexual violence.
Cloris is characterized as helpless
Erectile Dysfunction
"But oh what envious gods conspire
To snatch his power, yet leave him the desire" (79-80).
proto-feminist???
"The blood forsook the hinder place,
And strewed with blushes all her face" (116-117).
Pleasure taken (by the reader) by the embarrassment of the man (Lysander)
"Whose soft bewitching influence
Had damned him to the hell of impotence" (139-140).
3rd Person
"The Imperfect Enjoyment" by Rochester
1st person
Puts you so firmly in the mind of the narrator that it becomes difficult to create distance. Also told through a man's perspective and all the pitfalls of that.
"In liquid raptures I dissolve all o'er,
Melt into sperm, and spend? at every pore"
Prematureejactulation